Texas biography series
These cutting-edge scholarly works focus on individuals who lacked a quality modern biography exploring their significant role in historic events....
In this insightful biography, Light Townsend Cummins turns the historical spotlight on Emily Austin, the daughter who followed the trails of the western.
Events
Center for Texas Studies serves the DFW community with year-round events that encourage public interest and participation in preserving Texas history and culture. Check our online calendar for dates and times.
Preserving Our Past: Community History Workshops
The Center for Texas Studies at TCU presents the “Community History Workshop Series: Preserving Our Past” on the first Saturday of each month September through May at 10:30am in the Tandy Lecture Hall of the Fort Worth Library.
We hope that attending a workshop will make you feel—as we do—that “every person is a historian.” Speakers include both professional and local historians, museum curators, archivists, journalists, preservationists, and others who strive to document our heritage.
After every lecture, attendees have the opportunity to ask general questions or visit one-on-one with our guest about the history that matters to them. Whether you worry over elusive oral traditions, a bundle of